Ruthlessly competitive, 5 letters
___ and the Fool (Hugo Hofmannsthal play), 5 letters
___ Becomes Her (Hawn/Streep comedy), 5 letters
___ by chocolate (calorie-heavy dessert), 5 letters
___ By Puzzle by the star of this one, 5 letters
___ metal (musical genre), 5 letters
___ on the Nile (1978 film), 5 letters
___ Takes a Holiday (1934 film), 5 letters
___ Valley (California), 5 letters
-- Be Not Proud: Donne, 5 letters
'The sound of distant thunder at a picnic': W.H. Auden, 5 letters
A ___ in the Family, 5 letters
Agatha Christie title word, 5 letters
Another word from the same Agatha Christie title, 5 letters
Arthur Miller's ___ of a Salesman, 5 letters
Browne's cure of all diseases, 5 letters
Card in the major arcana, 5 letters
Card signifying change in tarot, 5 letters
Done to ___: repeated too often, 5 letters
Fate of Miller's salesman, 5 letters
It's as sure as taxes, so they say, 5 letters
Its stroke is as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired, per Cleopatra, 5 letters
John Donne's ___ Be Not Proud, 5 letters
Murder by ___: Neil Simon comedy, 5 letters
Necrophobiac's fear, 5 letters
One of Franklin's two certainties, 5 letters
One of life's certainties, 5 letters
One of the Four Horsemen, 5 letters
One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 5 letters
Point of no return?, 5 letters
Prominent character in Meet Joe Black, 5 letters
Sudden game ending event, 5 letters
Theroux's endless night, 5 letters
This and taxes are certain, 5 letters
Thomas Mann's ___ in Venice, 5 letters
What the Grim Reaper represents, 5 letters
Word in many Agatha Christie titles, 5 letters
Word in many whodunit titles, 5 letters
The absence of life or state of being dead, 5 letters
Continuing until dead, 5 letters
The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism, 5 letters
The event of dying or departure from life, 5 letters
The time when something ends, 5 letters
These really shouldn't be in a crossword, 15 letters
The inevitable, to a cabby?, 13 letters
Southwestern certainties?, 13 letters
1992 Streep screen gem, 15 letters
1992 Streep/Willis film, 15 letters
Meryl Streep film of 1992, 15 letters
Last rites location, at times, 8 letters
Type of religious conversion, 8 letters
The last few hours before death, 8 letters
The bed on which a person dies, 8 letters
Holy Sonnet 10 opener, 15 letters
One of Donne's sonnets, 15 letters
Words before though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, 15 letters
The blow that kills (usually mercifully), 9 letters
Music releases like We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, and Narrow Stairs, to fans, 11 letters
Poisonous mushrooms, 9 letters
Presidential concern about the wizard lobby influencing health care legislation?, 15 letters
1912 novella Morte, 13 letters
Thomas Mann classic, 13 letters
Thomas Mann novella, 13 letters
Meaty Thomas Mann novel?, 14 letters
HESS/DELTA merger that will last forever, 9 letters
Immortal, as some prose?, 9 letters
Sermon subject, literally?, 9 letters
Cast portrait of a sort, 9 letters
Genre for Carcass or Entombed, 10 letters
So attention must be paid..., 16 letters
Play re an ointment vendor?, 17 letters
1978 Peter Ustinov film, 14 letters
Classic Poirot case, 14 letters
Movie based on an Agatha Christie mystery, 14 letters
Punishment used most often, worldwide, by China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S., 12 letters
2008 Jason Statham thriller, 9 letters
___ Records (Rap Label), 8 letters
Home to many an appellant, 8 letters
Aesop Rock 1000 ___, 6 letters
Demographical statistic, 6 letters
I beg ___ pardon now: R. Wilbur, 6 letters
Six Feet Under events, 6 letters
Sudden ___ (overtimes), 6 letters
Sudden ___ (tie-breakers), 6 letters
They may be issued by terrorists, 12 letters
And turn'd that black word ___ banishment: Shak., 7 letters
2002 Robin Williams film, 14 letters
Robin Williams flick that was Roger Ebert's pick for worst movie of 2002, 14 letters
1978 Tony-nominated play, 9 letters
Car without brakes, say, 9 letters
Ira Levin suspense thriller, 9 letters
Positively perilous place, 9 letters
Recalled divided gathering at hot Christopher Reeve movie (9), 9 letters
Any structure that is very unsafe, 9 letters
Where people are likely to be killed, 9 letters
They might go up in flames, 10 letters
California national park, 11 letters
Desert basin in southeastern California, 11 letters
Long-running radio series, 15 letters
Popular radio series: 1930-45, 15 letters
TV series hosted by Ronald Reagan sans 24 hours?, 12 letters
Desire in the offing?, 9 letters
Unconscious urge to go to heaven?, 9 letters
Expressed per 1000 per year, 9 letters
The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area, 9 letters
Minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers, 10 letters
Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death, 10 letters